Naast mijn goddelijke lijf (ahum, hahaha) zorgt hardlopen bij mij voor een beter humeur en minder stress. Maar ondanks deze voordelen heb ik heus niet altijd zin om mijn schoenen aan te trekken en naar buiten te gaan. En het is op die momenten dat ik mezelf een steuntje in de rug geef door wat quotes te lezen. En vandaag deel ik mijn meest favoriete met jou :

• Just stick with it. What seems hard now will one day be your warm-up.
• Unless you puke, faint, or die, keep going!
• In running, it doesn’t matter whether you come in first, in the middle of the pack, or last. You can say, ‘I have finished.’ There is a lot of satisfaction in that.
• Exercise is so amazing from the inside out. I feel so alive and have so much energy.
• One run can change your day; many runs can change your life.
• There’s a great empowerment that I get from running, not only from the endorphins . . . Being a runner, to me, has made being depressed impossible. If ever I’m going through something emotional and just go outside for a run, you can rest assured that I’ll come back with clarity and empowerment.
• Running is like meditation for me. And I’m giving myself that time . . . I cannot live without it now. When you have such a good workout, it clears everything up mentally, physically, and you just have a better day.
• If you don’t have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain’t getting them.
• Nothing, not even pain, lasts forever. If I can just keep putting one foot in front of the other, I will eventually get to the end.
• There is something magical about running; after a certain distance, it transcends the body. Then a bit further, it transcends the mind. A bit further yet, and what you have before you, laid bare, is the soul.
• I’m not telling you it’s going to be easy… I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it.
• Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must, just never give up.
• There are times when I feel lazy and just want to stay in bed all day, but I know that working out is the best way to get those endorphins going, which will make me feel better emotionally and physically.
• Running is great for your body. It will increase your energy levels and helps you to clear your mind.
• I feel like when I am running, it not only helps change me physically, it also improves my state of mind.
• Something happens to me when I run. People think it’s crazy when I say it. All of my ideas come in when I run. That is my time where it’s just me, where I get to create.
• Running is the classical road to self-consciousness, self-awareness, and self-reliance.
• A good laugh and a long run are the two best cures for anything.
• Running is therapy anyone can afford.
• Running is nothing more than a series of arguments between the part of your brain that wants to stop and the part that wants to keep going.
• If you’ve never had a bad day running, you’re probably doing something wrong. If you’ve never had a good day running, you’re definitely doing something wrong.
• Running is alone time that lets my brain unspool the tangles that build up over days.
• Running has always been a relief and a sanctuary – something that makes me feel good, both physically and mentally. For me it’s not so much about the health benefits. Those are great, but I believe that the best thing about running is the joy it brings to life.
• If you run, you are a runner. It doesn’t matter how fast or how far. It doesn’t matter if today is your first day or if you’ve been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run.

Ben jij ook een hardloper ? En wat is jouw favoriete quote ? Lieve groet, Vera.